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Levick has acquired Chase Communications, a boutique Washington and San Francisco-based PR and marketing shop focused on healthcare and real estate.

Levick chief Richard Levick called Chase CEO Julie Chase a "longstanding professional colleague," adding she will chair his Washington-based firm's real estate practice and advise large company accounts.

Chase's San Francisco outpost will house Levick's West Coast practice. Chase VP Felicia Brown, a 20-year veteran of the San Francisco Business Times, continues to manage operations in that city.

Chase set up CC in 1997 and has counseled The JBG Companies, Valeant, Steinberg Architects and MRP Realty, among others.